Mississippi's freedom schools : the politics of education -- Why educate women? -- Identity and expression : a writing course for women -- Teaching in the modern languages -- Feminism, fiction, and the classroom -- Sex-role stereotypes start early -- Women's studies and social change -- Literacy and literature -- The future of women's colleges -- Women and the power to change -- Feminism and the education of women -- Feminism and the study of literature -- Myths of coeducation -- Breaking the disciplines : in the nineteenth century and today -- The past ten years : a critical retrospective -- The power of education : change in the eighties -- Why educate women? - the responses of Wellesley and Stanford -- Feminist scholarship : the extent of the revolution -- American literature and women's lives.